PowerPC Macs, however, it will feel a bit slower than the previous As a result, it loadsĪnd runs somewhat faster than Office 2004 on those Macs. Has been redesigned with their hardware in mind. Users of recent Intel-powered Macs will be pleased that Office '08 Publishing layout view, perhaps a response to easy-to-use page layoutįeatures in Apple's low-cost, Word-compatible Pages word processor (part of In Word, these provide quick access to features such as The elements gallery is new: a series of tabs between the toolbarĪnd the page. The handy formatting palette found in the last Mac Office versions, nowĮxpanded with new palettes for objects, reference tools, and more, Office '08 retains classic menus and a single-width toolbar, along with Replacing them with a series of what Microsoft refers to as 'ribbons'. Update, which did away with traditional menus and toolbars entirely, This new version is a less radical revision than last year's Windows New file formats, Mac users had to wait until now for the new Microsoft
Users got a 2007-branded update that featured a new user interface and But most of themĬontinue to be customers of Microsoft's Office. Separate from the Microsoft Windows-using majority. Mac users have long had a complicated love-hate
